Some people, like Christof Koch, think that a simulation cannot become conscious. The irony is that only simulations can be conscious. Consciousness is a simulated property of a simulated system.
What do you think is the nature of the physical? Descartes thought it's all that can be mapped into the same 3space. We now see that space is not primary but emergent over certain operators. Physics is a causally closed description of the transitions of all information states.
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I find it endlessly fascinating that there are philosophers who think of information as ephemeral, but of physical things as "real stuff". What do you think "real stuff" is made of?
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I don't know: but I don't think information is primary - it's "observer relative" if you like. If realism holds that there is one true description of reality, or everything collapses into one level of explanation I don't think that level includes information.
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